Biografía
He served apprenticeship at Halifax Nova Scotia as Third Engineer in the steamer Chase.
He came to the Pacific coast in 1868.
He served in the Pacific at Port Gamble in the shops and in the steamer Ruby.
He ran the Politofsky at Port Madison WA for three or four months.
He worked a year in the Hanson-Atkinson Mill at Tacoma WA and went to Victoria in 1873.
He operated a dredge there 1873-76.
He later served in the Grappler and Western Slope until 1880 when he served in the Sir James Douglas as Chief Engineer.
He was involved in the construction of the drydock at Esquimalt Harbour.
In 1891 he went to Scotland to bring the steamer Quadra out to this coast and served in her afterward as Chief Engineer to 1907.
He retired in 1907.
Lugares nombrados
Grant Point (BC) (Located at Maitland Island, Douglas Channel named by Louis Coste in 1898.)
Referencias
- Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)
- Wright, E.W. (ed.) (1895 reprinted 1967)
